Bill’s restaurants expansion to create 1,250 jobs
16 April 2014
Fast-growing UK restaurant chain Bill’s plans to create 1,250 vacancies across 25 new sites in the next 12 months, the company’s head of people, Marco Reick, said on Tuesday (15 April).
Wed, 16 April 2014
Fast-growing UK restaurant chain Bill’s plans to create 1,250 vacancies across 25 new sites in the next 12 months, the company’s head of people, Marco Reick, said on Tuesday (15 April).
Generous relocation allowances, behaviours-based hiring and preventing assessors from seeing candidates’ CVs “until the very end” are among the tools Bill’s is using to build a workforce with “genuine passion” that can, and will, develop careers with the organisation.
Speaking to a RetailChoice.com seminar audience yesterday in London, attended by Recruiter, Reick said Bill’s recruiters were particularly attuned to candidates without previous hospitality experience, in the face of a tightening talent pool within the sector.
Overcoming line managers’ bias against candidates without restaurant experience had been a big hurdle for the people team to overcome. However, delaying their sight of CVs until after they have seen how candidates perform in assessments was helping to ease that prejudice, Reick said.
Bill’s has 33 restaurants, with three more due to open by June.
Fast-growing UK restaurant chain Bill’s plans to create 1,250 vacancies across 25 new sites in the next 12 months, the company’s head of people, Marco Reick, said on Tuesday (15 April).
Generous relocation allowances, behaviours-based hiring and preventing assessors from seeing candidates’ CVs “until the very end” are among the tools Bill’s is using to build a workforce with “genuine passion” that can, and will, develop careers with the organisation.
Speaking to a RetailChoice.com seminar audience yesterday in London, attended by Recruiter, Reick said Bill’s recruiters were particularly attuned to candidates without previous hospitality experience, in the face of a tightening talent pool within the sector.
Overcoming line managers’ bias against candidates without restaurant experience had been a big hurdle for the people team to overcome. However, delaying their sight of CVs until after they have seen how candidates perform in assessments was helping to ease that prejudice, Reick said.
Bill’s has 33 restaurants, with three more due to open by June.
